ETA: check this link out, via Pharyngula


The partner keeps running around the house reciting sections of the debate last night. The particular favorite is:

"The vice president, I‘m surprised to hear him talk about records. When he was one of 435 members of the United States House, he was one of 10 to vote against Head Start, one of four to vote against banning plastic weapons that can pass through metal detectors.

He voted against the Department of Education. He voted against funding for Meals on Wheels for seniors. He voted against a holiday for Martin Luther King. He voted against a resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela in South Africa."

Dude.


Both candidates get a big fat F for their response to the question on addressing HIV infection rates in America.

Transcript:
IFILL: I will talk to you about health care, Mr. Vice President. You have two minutes. But in particular, I want to talk to you about AIDS, and not about AIDS in China or Africa, but AIDS right here in this country, where black women between the ages of 25 and 44 are 13 times more likely to die of the disease than their counterparts.
What should the government‘s role be in helping to end the growth of this epidemic?

Both candidates went on to address AIDS as a problem in Africa or China. Neither seemed all that well-versed on AIDS at the domestic level. C didn't know the stats and E just skirted around the issue.

Right.